Digital Society Project data
Mechkova, Valeriya, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, and Steven Wilson. 2020. “DSP [Country-Year] Dataset v2” Digital Society Project (DSP).
1. Correlations
Ploting Digital Society Project data
5. Internet filtering and shutdown in practice

9. Polarization of society - the higher score indicates the lower polarization on major political issues. 0 score (USA, Poland, Hungary, Brazil, France, Indonesia, Mexico) - serious differences on political issues, very polarized societies.

QofG Cross-sectional data, International Telecommunications Union data
Teorell, Jan, Aksel Sundström, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon & Cem Mert Dalli. 2021. The Quality of Government Standard Dataset,version Jan21. University of Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute, doi:10.18157/qogstdjan21
Hong Kong is absent in the analysis because it’s not present in QofG Standart data
11. Index assessed each country’s national website.

12. Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions/100 pop by country. The highert numbers in Western Europe, followed by Eastern Europe and developing economies. The lowest in African countries.

13. Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions is higher in Russia, Sounth Africa and Estonia. Lower than average in Spain, France, Hungary, Brazil, UK and African countries.

14. Internet users. % pop. Quite similar trend as for Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions, but considerably more users in Nigeria, Indonesia, Kenia, South Africa.

15. Telecommunication Infrastructure Index measures internet users,mobile subscribers,main fixed telephone lines and etc. Index’s values are the lowest in Kenia, Nigeria and Egypt. In general the same trend as for Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions.

16. Positive relationships between econ. development and internet users and negative one with Political Curruption Index.

17.Positive relationship between the Human Capital Index and number of Internet subscriptions/100 pop.

18. In general positive correlation between the Liberal Democracy Index and the number of mobile subscriptions/100 pop. Several outliners as Russia and Malaysia where regimes are undemocratic but a lot of people use mobile phones.

Merged data
21. Higher number of arrests in undemocratic regimes.

22. Lower scores on y scale - more often government spreads false info.
